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VOLUME 6, NO. 229
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THURSDAY, JANURARY 5, 2023
NO REST FOR FIRST RESPONDERS DURING HOLIDAYS PLANT CITY’S POLICE OFFICERS, FIREFIGHTERS AND PARAMEDICS ALWAYS ON HAND TO PROTECT AND SERVE OUR COMMUNITY. MICHELLE CACERES STAFF WRITER
It was anything but a relaxing holiday season for Plant City’s fi st responders, who were kept busy not with caroling and merriment but with a number of thefts,
assaults, domestic disturbances, fi es and medical emergencies during the last two weeks of the year.
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MLB DRAFT PICK
PARKER MESSICK
JOINS LOCAL COACHES AT YOUTH BASEBALL CAMP MESSICK JOINED A NUMBER OF LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE COACHES, ALONG WITH SEVERAL FORMER PLAYERS, AT A YOUTH BASEBALL CAMP LAST MONTH. TAYLOR JENKINS SPORTS WRITER
Since its inception in 2006, founder Mark Persails has served as the principal owner of Florida Baseball Heaven (FBH), a full-service, year-round baseball training facility/organization located in Plant City and Lakeland. In an attempt to give local youth players the best possible instruction while also bringing together the central Florida baseball community, Persails once again organized a Christmas baseball camp in late December that featured several local coaches as well as former players with both collegiate and professional baseball experience.
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